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nightpoollast Wednesday at 6:46 PM2 repliesview on HN

AppView is a specific term of art within the Bluesky federation architecture: https://atproto.com/guides/glossary#app-view, you were incorrect in identifying the public frontend repo as the AppView.


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verdvermlast Friday at 12:37 AM

The glossary specifically calls out the UI as part of an app view. Can you explain why it is not according to you?

verdvermlast Wednesday at 6:49 PM

A frontend is (can be) part of an App View. It is quite literally the app you view the network through. There can also be headless app views and app views which have no backend

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